We support founders reclaiming European tech sovereignty.
Europe First. That’s our thesis. It means backing companies that develop critical technologies in Europe, keeping their leadership, ownership and IP on the continent, while scaling commercially into global markets. We believe this is how Europe will hold on to the technologies its security and independence depend on.
Four critical areas where Europe must decide its own future.
01
Next-gen Computing & Digital Infrastructure
The compute, cloud and data layers everything else is built on. We back the companies giving Europe sovereign capability in AI infrastructure, agentic systems and the software running its critical industries
02
Defense & Cyber Security
Europe is rearming and re-securing itself after decades of underinvestment. We back its defence, cyber and resilience capability, with human oversight and allied customers at the core of how these companies operate.
03
Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing
Physical AI is moving from the lab onto the factory floor. We back the companies bringing autonomy and industrial intelligence to Europe's industrial base, so it can produce competitively at home.
04
Energy Systems & Climate
Energy independence is now a security question as much as a climate one. We back the companies securing Europe's supply, hardening its grid and decarbonising the industries that run on it.
From the first conversation through to global scale
01
Technology
We look for technology that is hard to replicate and hard to displace, the kind that create value and hold up when a market turns. Before we invest, we work through commercial direction and use of funds with the founders, so we are aligned from the start. Over more than a decade this discipline has kept our loss rates low and our returns on invested capital high.
02
Global scaling
Internationalisation has been our thesis from the beginning. Our investment team has spent years building and scaling outside Europe. We put that experience to work helping founders expand globally, including into the US, while keeping the company anchored here on our continent.
03
Active ownership
We stay engaged regardless of our position on the cap table. That means working alongside founders on the decisions that matter in the moment, from strategy and market entry to the practical details of building a company. Our founders will attest to it.
What our founders say
7Analytics
Quantica
Sonair
“We always knew our technology had to work beyond Norway. Scale helped us think internationally from early on, without ever pushing us to move the company out of Europe to do it.”
CEO & Co-founder | 7analytics
“They show up between the board meetings, not just at them. When we've hit the harder stretches, Scale has been the investor still in the room working the problem with us.”
Co-founder | quantica
"Scale understood the hard part of what we were building before anyone else did. They backed the engineering when it was still difficult to explain, and stayed close as it came together."
CEO & Co-founder | sonair
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